Lithograph showing a portrait of the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss at the age of 50 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Carl Friedrich Gauss – 1777 – Mathematician
“I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.”
Queen Juliana – 1909 – Royalty
“It must be a wonderful sport to contradict each other.”
Al Lewis – 1910 – Actor
“As long as you give it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail!”
Claude Shannon – 1916 – Mathematician
“Information is the resolution of uncertainty.”
Percy Heath – 1923 – Musician
“Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.”
Cloris Leachman – 1926 – Actress
“I make fun wherever I go … If I go to a restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. I always have a great deal of fun being with people. It’s part of the journey.”
Willie Nelson – 1933 – Singer
“We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.”
Larry Niven – 1938 – Writer
“Everything starts as somebody’s daydream.”
Jill Clayburgh – 1944 – Actress
“I want to be an actress, not a personality.”
Annie Dillard – 1945 – Author
Publicity photo of Cloris Leachman from the television program Phyllis. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
Isaiah Thomas – 1961 – Athlete
“If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.”
Kirsten Dunst – 1982 – Actress
“The real secret to gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self-confidence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.”
Lloyd Banks – 1982 – Musician
“If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that’s all you know.”
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